my wife is mulan

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Can you trace the direction of their migration?"

"There was a rain a few days ago, and the traces were washed away, but I thought that those Rouran people would have a high chance of moving along the river. After all, neither people nor livestock can live without water! "

Zhao Junsheng asked the imperial guards to bring the map. He opened the map and looked at it. On the map, the Ganwei River diverted from Heyun and flowed northward into a large lake. The section before it poured into the large lake did meet a river coming from the east.

"This river named Hungui River originates from the western foot of Yanran Mountain?"

The origin of the Ganwei River is in Tianshan Mountain, the eastern section of Yanran Mountain. It just started to flow down south, and then flowed north after reaching the lower reaches. The whole river is almost in the shape of a few characters.

"Let the people in the scout battalion quickly scout along the river and scout around this lake!"

"promise!"

At this time, Zhao Junsheng's army was only [-] miles away from the end of the Ganwei River - the Kyrgyz Lake. An hour later, the army arrived at the mouth of the Kyrgyz Lake.

Zhao Junsheng rode a horse and stood on a hill at the mouth of the river and looked into the distance, "Hiss - this lake is not small, you can't see the end at a glance, you can only see the clouds in the sky!"

A young general of the Dragon Guard came galloping from the lakeside on horseback and reported, "Your Majesty, this lake is a freshwater lake, and the water is very sweet!"

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and told Li Bao: "Order the Dragon Guards to be in charge of guarding, and let the other soldiers rest on the spot. They can go to the lake to wash and feed the horses, but if people want to drink water, they must be boiled before drinking!"

"promise!"

After the order was issued, the soldiers cheered and rushed towards the river on horseback. The water birds by the river jumped into the sky in fright and flew into the blue sky in groups.

Zhao Junsheng also came to the lake to wash his face, took the horse to the lake to drink water, and washed the horse again.

The imperial guards stepped forward to take the horses to feed the fodder and fodder. Zhao Junsheng sat down on a horse harness, took out a map and looked at it, and saw that the name of the big lake was not marked on the map, so he beckoned to Li Song who was walking over. He waved, and when he came over, he asked, "Do you know what this lake is called?"

"Your Majesty, I'm ashamed, I don't know!" Li Song apologized with shame on his face.

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "This map is too rough, and most of the mountains, rivers and rivers are not marked with their names! Come, find the relevant officials in charge of the map!"

"promise!"

Not long after, a small official walked over quickly and saluted: "Your Majesty, my minister Liu Dan!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "I ask you, why are most of the mountains, rivers and lakes on this map not marked with their names?"

Liu Dan replied: "Your Majesty, this map was drawn by the previous dynasty, and the person who drew the map didn't know the name, so he just drew the terrain without marking the name! Your Majesty wants to know the names of these mountains and rivers." It's very simple, just name them yourself, anyway, it's for us to see, and it doesn't matter what the Rouran people call them!"

Zhao Junsheng threw the map in his hand on the ground and said angrily, "Do you know how many things I have to think about all day long? You asked me to name it. If I have the time and energy, what else do I need you to do? Come on, Drag it down and cut it!"

A few soldiers dragged the unlucky Liu Dan down, and the miserable begging for mercy stopped abruptly. The soldiers who were washing and feeding the horses by the lake all looked back, and then continued to do what they should do.

"That Yan!" Zhao Junsheng called out.

Na Yan stood up and clasped her fists in agreement: "The minister is here!"

"Tell the scouts who draw the map to give good names to mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, highlands, plains, etc. when drawing maps in the future! Just like the lake in front of us, the sun shines on the lake at this time, shining golden light , I call it Jinguang Lake. If it has a very special shape, it can be named according to its shape characteristics, or it can be named according to the local people. In short, I don’t want to see only mountains and rivers on the map. I can’t see a single name, what do you want me to think of such a map?”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Not long after, a person came back from the front sentry.

"Your Majesty, we searched around the lake and found traces of human life. The size of the camp was about [-] tents, but we didn't find a single person or livestock. It must have moved away!"

Zhao Junsheng looked up at the sky and ordered: "It's getting late, pass on the order, the whole army will camp here today, and continue marching northward tomorrow morning!"

The generals and ministers bowed together: "No!"

The next day, under the leadership of Zhao Junsheng, the army continued to advance in the northwest direction, passing through woods, grasslands, hills and deserts along the way.

A few days later, the army came to a lake again. The area of ​​this lake is not small, it may be much larger than the previous lake, and the edge is also invisible.

It didn't take long for the army to stop by the lake, when a few sentries escorted a local man over.

"Your Majesty, a small tribe was found ten miles away on the right side of the lake. There are only a few dozen tents. They are all old and weak, women and children. This is their patriarch!" the sentinel who led the team reported.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the patriarch, who was about 50 to [-] years old with a tanned complexion and rosy skin.

"Ask him, what is the name of this lake, are they the only tribe here?"

An interpreter came over and asked a few words in Rouran, and then the Rouran man babbled, and kept gesticulating with his hands.

After listening, the interpreter said to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, he said that this lake is called Wubusu Lake. There used to be three tribes living around this lake, and they were the youngest. I heard that the army of the Qian Kingdom attacked the lake a few days ago. Nearby, so the other two big tribes and the young and strong in other tribes have all moved away!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "Ask him, where did the two big tribes and the young and strong in his tribe move to? Why didn't the old and weak in his tribe move away?"

The interpreter repeated it, and after hearing what the Rouran man had said, he reported to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, he said that he didn't know where they went, only that they moved all the way west, and they didn't know where they would end up. , Once you move away, it is almost impossible to come back! Now there are only some old and weak women and children in his clan, and they can't move anymore. Even if they move, they will die on the way of migration, so they simply stay!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and told Chang Kun: "Send a team of people to move them to the west foot of Jinwei Mountain and hand them over to Su Ji. The people you send will stay there and don't follow them!"

"Yes!"

Then the army continued to march northwest along the lake.

Zhao Ping rode to Zhao Junsheng's side: "Father, that Rouran clan chief said just now that several other tribes have migrated to the west. Shouldn't we pursue them westward?"

"If they keep migrating westward, do we have to keep chasing them? According to the map, if you walk west for a few days, you will enter a strange area. Even Rouran people have never been there. There may be a large number of beasts and savages, and the map is blank. I can't bring the army into a completely unknown area. This area is still the territory of the Rouran people. We still have a map in hand for reference. If you enter an unfamiliar area, And without a map as a reference, God knows what will happen!"

Zhao Ping nodded and didn't make any more noise.

The army walked along the lake for two days. At the end of the lake, they saw a concave mountain range. The two ends of this mountain range protruded south, and the middle protruded northward. The end of the mountains at both ends could not be seen.

"This should be the Tannu Mountains!"

Zhao Junsheng said something in his heart, took a look at the map from the guard's hand, and said to the generals and ministers: "The map shows that there is a large tribe named Qigu in the area north of this mountain range. Of course! Now we are mainly searching for the Rouran people, so we won’t bother with the Qigu people. It is not easy to climb over Tangnu Mountain. We still need to find a mountain pass that can be climbed over. It will take a lot of time. ! Send the order down, the army camps again tonight!"

"promise!"

Nothing happened all night, and at dawn the next day, Zhao Junsheng climbed to a nearby mountain with several ministers and generals under the protection of some generals.

When we climbed to the top of the mountain panting, we just saw a red sun rising from the east.

After watching the sunrise, Zhao Junsheng turned his head and saw a cliff as smooth as a wall. His heart moved, so he said to Li Song: "Find someone to engrave on this cliff the story of my great army's northern expedition to Rouran. A monument is erected next to it, indicating that this is the boundary of my Dagan, as proof!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Song seemed to be very concerned about this matter. He recruited some soldiers to cut wood to build a scaffold, which stood on the high cliff, and climbed up to carve a text with a hammer and chisel. To commemorate the feat of the Northern Expedition.

It took Li Song three full days to carve stones on the cliffs of Tangnu Mountain to record the detailed battle process of the Northern Expedition.

In the next few days, the army marched eastward along the southern foot of the Tannu Mountains, and encountered some ferocious beasts from time to time, including bears and wolves. What made people frightened was that the beasts here seemed to be extraordinarily tall, far larger than the beasts in other places. Much bigger, thanks to the large number of soldiers and horses in the army, they were arranged in an army formation and pressed down with bows and crossbows to stabilize the morale of the army and kill the attacking beasts.

On the way, they passed through a large desert. In this strange desert area, hundreds of soldiers were killed or injured due to various reasons.

It took five full days to cross the desert, and Zhao Junsheng and others were greatly relieved.

Chapter 921